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Bilkis Bano was 21 and pregnant for five months when she was raped (File). New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed interim bail petitions filed by two men – Radheyshyam Bhagwandas and Rajubhai Babulal – who had been convicted of raping Bilkis Bano and killing her family during the 2002 riots in Gujarat’s Godhra….
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The Supreme Court refused to interfere with the high court order of denying bail New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused bail relief to an Uttarakhand boy, who allegedly shot obscene videos of his 14-year-old classmate and circulated. The girl went missing from her home in October last year and was later found dead. She…
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The Supreme Court today rejected petitions seeking 100% verification of votes cast on Electronic Voting Machines with paper slips generated through the VVPAT method. The two-judge bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Datta delivered concurrent but separate judgments. “While balanced perspective is important, blindly doubting a system can breed scepticism and thus, meaningful…
Section 120B of IPC provides for punishment for a criminal conspiracy. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking review of its verdict which held that a person cannot be booked under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) by invoking Section 120B of the IPC if the alleged criminal conspiracy was not…
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The next hearing in this matter will be in January 2024, the Supreme Court said. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has taken strong exception to ‘media trials’ – referring to “biased reporting (that) gives rise to public suspicion the person has committed an offence” – and directed the Union Home Ministry to prepare guidelines for…
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